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Monday Morning Photo - Wisteria Time in Andalucia

How quickly spring comes around after the short winter here in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. After lots of very much needed rain we´re back to the normal cloudless blue.  My garden is shooting incredbily with the moisture and now sunshine. And my beautiful wisteria flowers grandly albeit it short-lived. The big black carpenter bees love it. Each flowering season reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Malaga and the ´tunnel´ of wisteria that I haven´t yet caught in bloom. April is a good time to plan to go if it´s on your list.  Here´s the botanical garden link La Concepción Botanical Gardens. And a sneaky peak at the wisteria. See the Monday Morning Photos list.
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If you don't enter you won't win! My Competition Wins

Prevaricating is easy. I expect you already know that. I'm very good at it.  I'm not very good at many things but prevaricating I (sadly, almost proudly) admit I am up there with the best. What about you? Are you a prevaricator or a doer?

Occasionally I do. That happened fairly recently. I entered a Bradt Travel Writing competition and I was one of the runners-up. I applied myself and I got a result. That got me thinking about other competitions I'd entered. One, many years ago, was a children's story competition and in that one I was short-listed.

Then other competitions, those you see and don't take more than a minute or two to enter, I've entered lots of those. How many? I've no idea but I've had quite a few wins, which encourages me to keep doing those simple and quick to enter ones.



What have I won? Well here's the list for luck of the draw competitions


  • Two return flights with Easyjet (Spain -UK - Spain)
  • Two nights for two at  Hotel Catalonia  Reina Victoria in Ronda
  • Two nights for two at a Rusticae hotel - I choose the Gar Anat in Granada
  • A shawl by Q-Bee
  • A Charming Hotel Guide to the UK.
  • A live Spider Crab
  • A Guide to the Cotswolds (writing competition)


So it got me thinking that if you don't do and enter something you can't possibly win. So I'm definitely going to look out for more writing competitions, that doesn't necessarily mean I'll get around to entering! But if I do I stand a chance at winning and if I don't well......

What about you are you a winner or a prevaricator?

Update: 2023

There isn´t a lot to add to the above, but there again a lot has been happening and not a lot of giveaways have taken place over the Co-vid years.

But here we are back travelling again and I have a win!

A night in Cortijo Santa Clara in the valley of Carmona. 
If you don´t enter you won´t win!

Update: 2024

Here we are halfway through February and an Instagram win saw us flying up to Bilbao for 2 nights, flights, airport transfers, hotel, 48 travel pass, guided tour of the Guggenheim and a 1 * Michelin meal at Zarate.

And a Michelin 1* star lunch at JCGRestaurante on Muelle Uno, Malaga port´s revamped shopping area, via Laurent Perrier Champagne on Instagram.

Yeah! 2024 has been a great start so far!


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